Hi,
> We query the st_mode parameter set by the stat command. We can test if this
> parameter is pointing to a directory by doing a "bitwise and" with 0040000
> which is the value of S_IFDIR. This constant is also present in Windows but it
> is called _S_IFDIR. This patch will work on windows as the value of _S_IFDIR is
> also 0040000. This is same on all the platforms only the name of the constant is
> different. For example, the same constant is called S_IFDIR in Linux but it has
> the same value as above.
Ick. *Please* don't embed OS-specific assumptions like this!
You have know way of knowing if (say) one of the BSDs -- or AIX or
IRIX or any of the 6.02e23 other operating systems on which we need
to run Cactus -- uses a different value for this bit mask, or even
encodes things in some form other than a bit mask.
There's a reason POSIX defines S_IFDIR() MACRO rather than the bit
fields, namely portability. We should use the macro on all POSIX
platforms.
I don't really care what we do on non-POSIX platforms.
ciao,
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